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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

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ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

How we will see unregistered users

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Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

The Template Barnstar

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  The Template Barnstar
For all your work making DYK work. Thanks. --evrik (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

NPP Award

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The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

For over 100 article reviews during 2021. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:22, 16 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

Sixteenth anniversary on Wikipedia!

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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society

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Dear Maile66,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 19:09, 25 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. I added the icon to my user page — Maile (talk) 21:41, 25 December 2022 (UTC).Reply

Widget

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Windows 11 you can do this by right-clicking the taskbar, then clicking Taskbar Settings. From here you can disable widgets

Sealioning

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@SL93: Have you by any chance seen Sealioning? Just saying ... life is too short to respond to someone who does this. — Maile (talk) 12:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Always precious

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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:47, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Lovely thoughtfulness. — Maile (talk) 01:10, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

First Edit Day

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An award for you!

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  The Master of Salad Award
Awarded to Maile66 for staying strong, Popeye-strong, even in the face of UTTER LACK OF NOTABILITY. That's how we're going to win this war! ;) Drmies (talk) 13:10, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I proudly accept the award. If your ESP is working, you should now be seeing me taking my bows. — Maile (talk) 13:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sorry, I was driving to work but I think I felt something--then again maybe I've been playing Tonight's the Night too often. How's it going Maile? Still here after all these years, I see: thank you for that. Ima go see what other AfDs you been in, just to mess with you. Take care! Drmies (talk) 14:37, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Maile, it may be the Dutchman in me, but when I look at Hofstra University rape hoax I'm tempted to delete this on the spot as a BLP violation! Drmies (talk) 14:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
You are welcome to look through my edits of anything, as far as I'm concerned. I have no idea what you are getting at here. But there have been a lot of AFDs ... just within the last 12 months. The thing about AFD is, like all of Wikipedia, anybody can join in, regardless if they know WP's complicated, and often conflicting, guidelines on anythig and anybody. And you can often find a WP guideline to justify any direction of something. — Maile (talk) 16:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
Just joking, my friend--but I'm glad I saw that Hofstra thing. You run into these old things and you wonder how they got written up in the first place, and how they managed to stay around. How long do you think our project will last? Drmies (talk) 16:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
The overall Wikipedia project? I believe it will out-live me. Judging from the Deceased Wikipedians/2024, Jimbo Wales dreamed up a doozie of international connections when he created Wikipedia. We all have become an international family. — Maile (talk) 20:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Thank you! What a nice gesture. — Maile (talk) 02:35, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

NPP Awards for 2024

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The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award

This award is given in recognition to Maile66 for conducting 1,668 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Books & Bytes – Issue 67

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025

  • East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
  • Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
  • Tech tip: Suggest page

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --18:48, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Requesting review(s)

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Dcw2003 (talk)User dcw2003 requests:

Sorry to ask Maile66, but do you think you could do a quick review of the new page Arthur Albiero? I could also use a review of Ray Daughters who has been available for review for about six weeks. Do you know of anyone else who could do a quick review? I know its not great do ask, but Ray Daughters is an interesting biography of a rather significant American coach. I'm hoping you'll enjoy reading it.

Thanks!!

dcw2003

Albiero is a swim coach, one of the 100 greatest Coaches of the Century and recently released to the Article pages. There are few spelling errors or grammer errors, and the review could be quick.

Thanks again

Dcw2003

Dcw2003 This is out of my range of knowledge to review. I'm not even sure where to send you for this. You might try posting the question at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and asking them where you should go for a review on this. Sorry I could not be of better help to you. — Maile (talk) 01:24, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

The Bugle: Issue 228, April 2025

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Your Military History Newsletter

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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May 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
 
  • On 1 May 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Pages Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Each review will earn 1 point.
  • Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Women in Red May 2025

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Women in Red | May 2025, Vol 11, Issue 5, Nos. 326, 327, 337, 338


Online events:

Announcements (events facilitated by others):

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,269 articles during this period!
  • 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,061,363; 414,126 women)
  • 24 Mar 2025: 20.070% (2,057,083 bios; 412,857 women)

Tip of the month:

  • Those of you who experience harassment while trying to create or improve articles about women
    are welcome to bring your problems to our attention on the Women in Red talk page.

Other ways to participate:

--Lajmmoore (talk 09:21, 29 April 2025 (UTC) via MassMessagingReply

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee
 
 

Wishing Maile66 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

-- RPE ✍️ 📚 01:03, 2 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Thank You!! — Maile (talk) 17:58, 2 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-19

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

 

  Administrator changes

  Rusalkii
  NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Galobtter

  Guideline and policy news

  Miscellaneous


Lada deletion

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I reverted your deletion of Lada as a test page. I have no idea why you thought that was an appropriate action. plicit 11:43, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Not me. What you deleted seems to have been made by an IP. I just did a User Contribution Search, and I don't seem to have ever edited that page. — Maile (talk) 12:05, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
You deleted the page three hours after the IP added the tag. plicit 13:18, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
My apologies for that deletion. Thanks for pointing this out. I was obviously in error. — Maile (talk) 13:23, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Reply